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Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux is a secure, professional-grade operating system designed to run business software.

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Oracle Linux is a secure, professional-grade operating system designed to run business software. This self-hosted version allows you to create a stable, private environment on your own hardware for hosting websites, databases, or custom applications with high reliability and performance.

Platform availability

Available on 0 of 6 install platforms

  • Unraid (not listed)
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

39/100 Low

Maintained
54last commit 193 days ago
Popular
45178 GitHub stars
Easy to install
00 install platforms
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

GitHub stars
178
Open issues
11
Last commit
2026-03-31
License
UPL-1.0
Activity
stale

Checked 11 days ago - source: GitHub (oracle/oracle-linux)

Resources & Compatibility

Minimum requirements: 10 GB disk.

Checked today - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Deploy via Docker Hub Oracle Linux is distributed as an official Docker image. Pull the oraclelinux image from Docker Hub to run a minimal, self-hosted base environment on your own hardware, then layer the packages you need on top. source

Fetched today - each note links to its source

Alternatives (6)

  • CentOS
  • Fedora
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat is the leader in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure - ranging f…
  • Rocky Linux - Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distr…
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise - SUSE is the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution and the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.
  • Ubuntu Server - The leading platform for scale-out computing, Ubuntu Server helps you make the most of your infrastructure.

Checked 12 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Can an existing CentOS system be converted to Oracle Linux?

Yes, the centos2ol repository contains a script designed to automatically switch a CentOS instance to Oracle Linux.

Are official Oracle Linux container images available?

Official Oracle Linux base images are published on GitHub Container Registry, and developer-oriented images can be downloaded from GitHub packages.

Why might a new Oracle Cloud VPS default to Oracle Linux 8 instead of Oracle Linux 9?

A user reports that Oracle suggests using Oracle Linux 8 by default when setting up a new VPS, which can make Oracle Linux 9 seem less expected even though RHEL 9 has been released for a while.

Answers sourced from github.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 6 days ago - public community threads